Making Friends Nursery Bawtry

My son has been going to this nursery since he was one year old and it has been fab! He has moved every day there and the staff are amazing. Always keep me up to date and informed, give me advice when I ask them for it and support my son and me through his development. He has a good bond with his key worker/s which makes me feel more settled about leaving him. I’m so happy with the nursery that I will be keeping him here until he goes to school!

Highly recommend, Moorends making friends has helped my little girl so much in many ways. She’s autistic and when she first started going was non verbal and now she’s started talking putting a few words together and loves singing nursery rhymes. The staff are so lovely and very caring help with any worries I may have and got everything put in place ready for her going to big school.

I can’t recommend Making Friends (Bawtry) enough. From day one of my little boy attending nursery they have been understanding, helpful, caring and supportive throughout. All the practitioners are very professional and have a great knowledge of early years education. Through all my child’s milestones (including potty training) I’ve felt as a parent I’ve been supported and respected which gives me peace of mind as a whole. Overall a lovely environment for your little one to flourish.

The girls here are fantastic, friendly and very understanding, my daughter loved attending the nursery setting and followed on to the wrap around care at bawtry mayflower primary school, the team at making friends was an absolute life saver as I’m a single full time working father, however things took a turn for the worst coming up to Christmas when making friends unexpectedly announced they would be closing their wrap around care facility leaving myself and other people stressed and worried about child care/work balance, I’d like to say that’s the only time making friends and their team have let me down but a couple months after my child left I received a letter from a debt collector agency working on behalf of making friends to collect the sum of £456, for an over due balance that was due in December of 2022, now I’m sure I had paid and checked my back statement and yes I had definitely paid, I contacted the debt collector a couple of weeks ago to settle this and explained this was an misunderstanding and then making friends had been contacted and they had found my payment after looking properly and brought my account with them to £0 owed, or that’s what I had been told but today I have opened a letter from the same debt collectors with a balance owed for making friends of £706, the letter stated the company intended to attend my property and take me to court on behalf of their clients MAKING FRIEND! You can imagine my surprise as i thought this matter had been delt with weeks ago but after speaking with the debt collector agency I have been informed that making friends did not however contact them to correct there terrible mistake and I was actually about to have collectors to my door and be taken to court for more than what making friends thought I owed to begin with, I called making friend and made the point that this matter urgent and was told that I would receive a call back from the manager but typically I did not so I called them back up hours later and I have just been passed around from pillar to post, I now have to call back up tomorrow to speak to the owners themself to settle this matter. This should have never happened, I should not be the one chasing things up after being told the matter was felt with weeks ago, incompetence, inexperienced money management and a complete disregard for other people’s financials and mental state really ruined everything for me, me and my daughter are now with hogglets who I find provide significantly better child care, activities, and financial billing and planning! Absolute disgrace, making friend deal with your mistakes when they become apparent, do not leave them to escalate this far and this bad! Update, after pressure to making friends and the debt collection agency this matter has now been solved, the owners of making friends was very apologetic about this case.

A welcoming and lovely nursery. Our daughter has settled in quickly and is very happy. We looked at a few different settings in the area but I’m really pleased with our decision to send her here.